Cabinet Door Frame Joints

The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible.

Cabinet door frame joints.

These joints may be used to create frames for frame and panel doors for dust webs or drawer supports and even in basic furniture framing such as legs and rails for tables and chairs. You also have to hang them. Making outside corners on door and window trim and creating decorative frames. But traditionally the strongest wood joint has been a mortise and tenon including both a blind tenon and a through tenon.

Dado 559 lbs force screws did not help. Biscuit joiners allow you to make solid precise joints accurate enough to build fine cabinets. Clearly this test shows that the mortise tenon joint is superior to other joints. It took 4 733 lbs force nearly 2 1 2 tons to pull apart.

Making the door frame. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story. The trick to successful biscuit joinery is cutting the slots in.

Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. However with the many varied types of wood joinery a woodworker has a number of different joints in his arsenal from which to choose based on the project. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Get help with the hinges.

In this three part episode mike builds a drawer for the cabinet taking you through his ever methodical methods for perfect half blind dovetails. Face frames cover plywood edges. Wood joinery is one of the most basic concepts in woodworking if we didn t have the ability to join two pieces of wood together in a solid fashion all woodworking pieces would be sculptures carved out of a single piece of wood. Using the straightforward process detailed here you can crank out great looking doors for many applications including furniture cabinets and built ins.

The door for mike pekovich s wall cabinet quickly comes together as mike creates the frame with stub tenons and grooves at the tablesaw. For tight miter joints that fit snugly leaving no visible gaps use a miter saw a specialized. Frame and panel doors add class to any project but they don t have to add a lot of assembly time. To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in.

We show you the three key techniques you need to know joints at right angles joints in narrow materials and joints in thin materials. From each end using the table saw. Frames use 3 4 thick stock with 1 4 panels in various materials and veneers a general purpose saw blade will do the job although.